Turkish scientist writes a plant dictionnary in Kurdish Ahmet Kasımoğlu lives in Diyarbakir. He is a retired agricultural engineer. He wrote the first Kurdish Plant Dictionary. Whenever he goes to a village, he asks the villagers about names of plants in local dialect. In 14 years he has collected more than 20 000 words. He is now writing the second version of his dictionary in Kurdish, Turkish and Latin. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES